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Single Payer Health Systems

MichMan

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1. Canada, with one eighth the population of the US, has had over 5000 cases this year.

Reply to ck4829 (Original post)

Wed Dec 31, 2025, 01:44 PM

3 hrs ago

Per capita, that is a measles rate 24 times higher than in the US.

That would indicate that having single payer has nothing to do with it.

Since the fall of 2024, Canada has recorded more than 5,000 measles cases in nine provinces and one territory.

Earlier this year, the Public Health Agency of Canada announced Canada had lost its measles elimination status.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/health/diseases-and-conditions/northwestern-health-unit-confirms-measles-case-in-a-year-canada-saw-alarming-rise-in-numbers/ar-AA1TiIXV?ocid=BingNewsSerp

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